I'm currently finding it ridiculous how powerful these government reforms seem to have made hordes. My early game was honestly pretty sub par, but by now this is absurd. FWIW I'm intending to form the Mongol Empire via Yuan and I'd already done Mongolia into Yuan so I picked Korchin for a change. Anyway.
It's 1594 and I have this:
I was very late to China, ignoring it mostly until the mid 1550s. Had I played the early game more efficiently, I could be ahead of where I was now, although on the flipside that allowed me to conquer India while it was still splintered and not a hugbox.
Due to the new government reforms giving -5% CCR and -5 years of separatism, I have -20 years of separatism (5 from traditions, 10 from humanist, 5 from reform) and -55% CCR (25 from admin, 25 from national ideas, 5 from reform). Combined with all the other unrest modifiers that humanist+pagan decisions can get you and I'm able to take just shy of 250% OE pre absolutism (350% before razing) and be absolutely fine. (I've already taken on 230% and sat happy; no rebels)
The huge CCR reduction means I core in just under a year and a half, before rebels even spawn. The massive unrest and separatism bonuses mean that I have barely any unrest to begin with, even in freshly conquered territory. Here are some shots of freshly conquered and some older TC land.
Due to the year still being somewhat earlyish, I'm still getting stupid monarch points from razing. This, combined with the 55% CCR means that I actually gain admin points by taking land. The events from OE are completely meaningless because I am swimming in monarch points, constantly ahead in tech, dumping into whatever I can think of. Stab hits don't matter. The +10 unrest events don't matter, because I'll finish coring before the revolts happen and by then I'll have negative unrest in those provinces again.
All that said, the corruption changes suck and I wish I could RP a bit more and not have to beeline TCs like this and move my capital to the Ural, but hey, at least I'm finding this fun.
It's 1594 and I have this:

I was very late to China, ignoring it mostly until the mid 1550s. Had I played the early game more efficiently, I could be ahead of where I was now, although on the flipside that allowed me to conquer India while it was still splintered and not a hugbox.
Due to the new government reforms giving -5% CCR and -5 years of separatism, I have -20 years of separatism (5 from traditions, 10 from humanist, 5 from reform) and -55% CCR (25 from admin, 25 from national ideas, 5 from reform). Combined with all the other unrest modifiers that humanist+pagan decisions can get you and I'm able to take just shy of 250% OE pre absolutism (350% before razing) and be absolutely fine. (I've already taken on 230% and sat happy; no rebels)

The huge CCR reduction means I core in just under a year and a half, before rebels even spawn. The massive unrest and separatism bonuses mean that I have barely any unrest to begin with, even in freshly conquered territory. Here are some shots of freshly conquered and some older TC land.


Due to the year still being somewhat earlyish, I'm still getting stupid monarch points from razing. This, combined with the 55% CCR means that I actually gain admin points by taking land. The events from OE are completely meaningless because I am swimming in monarch points, constantly ahead in tech, dumping into whatever I can think of. Stab hits don't matter. The +10 unrest events don't matter, because I'll finish coring before the revolts happen and by then I'll have negative unrest in those provinces again.
All that said, the corruption changes suck and I wish I could RP a bit more and not have to beeline TCs like this and move my capital to the Ural, but hey, at least I'm finding this fun.